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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wanted to in HS but my mom said, "you can try out for any sport you want and we will support you. [b] you will not cheer for boys playing their sport.[/b]"  so I tried out for tennis, loved it and became obsessed, got good, was #1 by senior year. lifelong sport. i don't see adults joining the local adult cheer league.[/quote]

This is my thought too.  Maybe see if she wants to do gymnastics/tumbling  or acrobatics or something instead?[/quote]

I cheered back in the late 90s. We cheered for boys sports. And for the girls teams. We cheered for volleyball, girls basketball, had squad members flashing scores at girls gymnastics...we covered just about everything. We had a co-ed cheer squad. We were also State Champions in a state that classifies cheerleading as a sport and has done so for 30 years. We competed at nationals twice. We practiced at 6am before school and again after school. We were in tumbling lessons at least once a week. We worked hard and we darn good athletes.

I was also a world champion equestrian and first chair violin in orchestra. I was on the dean's list in college, got my law degree, and do pretty well for myself these days. But tell me again how I'm probably dumb and should have been on a stripper pole instead.

If you want to be worried, be worried about injuries. We had a ton. And some were severe. [/quote]

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